So I'm reading Genki II where they introduce なら. There's a dialogue which has the following context: a guy asks his female friend Kyouko to cover for him at work (he's an English teacher). The friend ...

Context: She was waiting in the snow for someone and after she met him and after they had gone inside and she had touched his face with her hands he said "バカ、こんなに冷たくなるまで俺のこと待っていたなんて. She then whispers ...

I'm reading Shin Chan and there's a situation I can't quite understand. His mother says they're going to the bank, and Shin Chan starts packing his toy. Then his mother says おもちゃはいいの！！おもちゃは and after ...

it is my first time posting here and I have very little experience with Japanese language. Recently, a Japanese user in this game I play posted on my wall: どうもフレンド申請はおどおど受け可能ですか？ Does "odo odo" mean ...

I'm starting my JLPT N1 study, but am already running into roadblocks just reading the example sentences which is rather embarrassing. The way things are going, I'll have many more questions in the ...

I don't know anything about Japanese language; I'm just researching about Japan.
I got an email that said (This is summery):
There is no meaning (concept) for sin in Japanese culture, and the shame ...

My question is about the meaning of the これで in これで失礼します. I've looked to see if I could find an explanation for it, but the many "literal" translations I found all seemed to use the word "now" in their ...

I'm new to this site so please tell me if I do anything wrong. I'll learn from it and this way, I can share my newfound knowledge with other newbies as well.
Anyway, my question is what そう君と二人 means ...

So I was working through my textbook and I come across an example sentence, which goes: 流行する色はその時の景気の善し悪しが影響するという。
I went through the dictionary to look up the words I didn't know, but I just can't ...

I might, for example, come across one of these lines after a battle in a RPG or whatever. いくわよ・いくぞ by themselves can mean things like "let's go", "let's do this" etc, but I'm not quite sure how どんどん ...

「日記を書いていたらまさにお腹がすいてきた」
That's the sentence. I believe it'd be, "I am certain to get hungry when I write in my diary."
I'm just not entirely sure I'm right simply because the it is きた instead of くる, ...

I'm trying to read a light novel for the first time and it's been confusing so far, what with the historical present tense and everything, but I mostly managed through until I got to this one scene.
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I am currently playing a Visual Novel, and there's a character who ends all of her sentences with that 『なのよさ』(This is 蒔菜{まきな} from the Grisaia VN series). From what I understood that has to do with ...